# That movie you can't resist watching again and again **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 19, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879 "2023-04-19T00:55:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/1 "2023-04-19T00:55:28Z")
What’s that movie (or movies) that when you stumble across it when you’re idly channel surfing, even though you’ve seen it a million times, you have to stop and watch it again? I have a couple: The Magnificent Seven (the original, of course) A Few Good Men Okay…okay…and The Sound of Music 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/2 "2023-04-19T00:59:43Z")
Blazing Saddles and Terminator 2! ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/3 "2023-04-19T01:05:13Z")
_The Great Escape_ _Rear Window_ _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ Stranger ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/4 "2023-04-19T01:08:05Z")
Bad Santa. Anger Management… Fist Fight. The Angriest Man in Brooklyn. What About Bob. What Happens in Vegas. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/5 "2023-04-19T01:14:33Z")
Blazing Saddles Airplane! Monsters, Inc. Support Your Local Sheriff Galaxy Quest Men In Black ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/6 "2023-04-19T01:21:44Z")
I’m not saying they’re all that good, but… Young Frankenstein Sherlock Holmes’s Smarter Brother Twister Men In Black Independence Day Fantasia Chicago ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/7 "2023-04-19T01:22:28Z")
Ivanhoe. Stargate SG-1 Stargate Atlantis ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/8 "2023-04-19T01:22:41Z")
**Jaws 3-D**. So bad I can’t help but watch it again and again. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/9 "2023-04-19T01:27:29Z")
_Rear Window_ is one of mine, too. Also: _A Room with a View_ _The Full Monty_ _The Birdcage_ ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/10 "2023-04-19T01:32:11Z")
_The Big Lebowski_ ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/11 "2023-04-19T01:32:27Z")
I finally cut the cord a few months ago, so “idle channel surfing” is no longer possible for me, but some I would have watched back when I could do that: Airplane! Back to the Future Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Monty Python and the Holy Grail Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Fargo ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/12 "2023-04-19T01:37:30Z")
Office Space The Big Lebowski Escanaba in da Moonlight Harold and Maude For a Few Dollars More Rudy Rock ‘n’ Roll High School ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/13 "2023-04-19T01:38:23Z")
The original Clash of the Titans ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/14 "2023-04-19T01:41:43Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I finally cut the cord a few months ago, so “idle channel surfing” is no longer possible for me, but some I would have watched back when I could do that: I haven’t had cable for at least 10 years, but my Roku streams a bunch of channels. Most are crap (just like most cable channels), but at least I’m not paying for them. And there are some good ones that show movies. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/15 "2023-04-19T01:45:25Z")
I’ll watch pretty much any black and white movie I stumble across, especially if Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn is in it. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/16 "2023-04-19T01:49:41Z")
Goodfellas Casino Shawshank Redemption Midnight Run ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/17 "2023-04-19T01:56:23Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > A Room with a View Seconded! Also: Seven Samurai (the _real_ original) Sullivan’s Travels Mostly Martha ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/18 "2023-04-19T02:01:14Z")
My top four all have great theme tunes: - The Great Escape - The Dambusters - The Magnificent Seven (as ThelmaLou says, the original of course) - You only live twice [The Great Escape（1963） - MainTitle Music - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ieaYqW9FcA) [The Dam Busters (1955) - Re-created Main Titles in HD Colour - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyBLd1eRgts) [The Magnificent Seven Theme - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XDB7GMnbUQ) [You Only Live Twice Opening Title Sequence - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxjcN609cm4) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/19 "2023-04-19T02:50:44Z")
I can watch **Commando** infinity times. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-movie-you-cant-resist-watching-again-and-again/982879/20 "2023-04-19T02:56:04Z")
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